Privacy & Security
Hamish Steel, the 23-year-old founder of Australia's Digital Health Festival, says there are massive opportunities out there to accelerate Australian healthcare's digitalisation.
Cybersecurity In Focus
Poorly controlled cloud environments, growing access to systems, heightened regulatory scrutiny and significant deals activity will require healthcare CISOs, CIOs and other security leaders to bolster the defenses.
Also, New Zealand's My Health Record has expanded access to more personal health information.
Many healthcare organizations underestimate the expense of on-premises cybersecurity and may miss early signs of an attack if teams don’t know what to look for, says Max Rogers, senior director of the security operations center at Huntress.
Cybersecurity In Focus
Darren Lacey discusses the key foundational technologies underlying healthcare's IT infrastructure, and how innovative approaches to open-source tooling and memory safe languages can help improve health systems' cybersecurity posture.
Cybersecurity and artificial intelligence are the chief concerns in the region, followed by cloud adoption and use of machine learning in medical imaging, says Sam Amory, managing director for the Middle East and Africa at Dedalus.
Now that participation among multiple QHINs is allowed under TEFCA, The Sequoia Project addresses how cybersecurity requirements apply to all entities exchanging protected health data.
As the first organization in the world to reach Stage 7 of the new INFRAM24, the health system has seen valuable improvements in cybersecurity, sustainability and care delivery, says Dr. Farukh Usmani, its medical director of digital technology services.
The Rewards for Justice program seeks information leading to the identification or location of any ALPHV BlackCat-linked cyber actor. The group claimed credit for the destabilizing Feb. 21 Change Healthcare ransomware attack.
In healthcare, larger hospitals, all critical access hospitals, essential drug manufacturers and Class II and Class III devices would fall under the draft mandatory reporting rules, but health IT developers and others would not.